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Zelenskyy says G7 pledges could not be substitute for eventual NATO membership
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed new security commitments from the G7 powers on Wednesday, but warned that these could not be a substitute for eventual NATO membership.
Speaking after talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Zelenskyy said the G7 promises should be seen “not instead of NATO, but as security guarantees on our way to integration.”
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“We can state that the results of this summit are good, but should we receive an invitation, then that would be the optimum,” he said at NATO’s summit in Vilnius.
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